Friday, March 5, 2010

Baseball Pitcher's Live Motion Monitoring System

Filed under: Sports Medicine

Baseball pitchers are some of the most scrutinized players of any sport because their performance can make or break a game for the rest of the team. Engineering students at Northeastern University have developed a shirt that can be used to closely monitor the characteristics of every pitch served, and whether the player is getting tired or perhaps even causing injury to himself.

Here's a video reel from Northeastern about the project:

Press release: Pitching an idea ...

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